bad capture

masmedia wrote on 2/29/2008, 8:20 PM

Hi everybody,

What am I doing wrong? I'm getting some bad captures from time to time (a few clips per project -projects around 20-25 clips) what I mean by "bad capture" is the video is not viewable, but has big grey square boxes... here's an example:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2005004840102178856mOZVpn

I don't "think" my heads are dirty, and it's done this with both my cameras now, and when it does this it's just a few clips at random.

Any insights?

Thanks,

mas

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/1/2008, 5:42 AM

clean the heads. If it's on both camera's, odds are the tape is bad in that spot. Happens with excessive use (better tape = longer until this happens. IE the DVCPro's we used when I was in TV took years of recording & rerecording on top of the tape for that to happen. Consumer MiniDV's can have it happen after ~5/6 recordings).

masmedia wrote on 3/1/2008, 8:58 AM

fair enough. There probably is a 2-3 passes on what I'm using, plus it's an old tape from 2004. The TV I work at never does more than 1 pass!

thanks

TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/1/2008, 9:47 AM

we'd did ~1 wipe a week on DVCPro tapes until dead. :D Normally took a couple years! :D